Description

One of the prettiest flowering ornamentals, featuring a memorable performance of semi-double soft pink flowers in early spring before the leaves on a decidedly upright and pyramidal plant, a superior form for home landscape use

Landscape Attributes

Wase-Miyako Flowering Cherry is a deciduous tree with a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Wase-Miyako Flowering Cherry is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Wase-Miyako Flowering Cherry will grow to be about 25 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 15 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 3 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil pH, but grows best in rich soils. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.